Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-04-24

received their new Victor Light Rcadsters.
OF conrse they are both in love with their
new mounts
Two Chicagoans intend TO ride from
Chicago to Harvard College this summer
a number Of cyelers took in the sights
Of Martins Ferry and st. Clairsyille last
Sunday.
A number Of 'cyclers have been out the
paSt week taking advantage Of the cool
evenings.
Have any Wheeling cyelers allowed their
membership to lapse. Ifthey have 1t ought
TO be attended to.
Ed. wincher is to be seen spinning along
Virginia street every pleasant evening. Ed
does first rate for new rider.
Since Mr.. Mccoy has retired from the
ranks of the Wheeling riders, Robert Burt
is the agent of the Victor for this city.
Massachusetts, compels all towns and
cities to erect and maintain guide boards
at all forks and intersections leading from
one town to another.
Lucien Beall and Thomas Amick rode
to Wellsburg On Wednesday last returning
on Thursday, reporting roads good and
having pleasant run.
The present time is as good if not the
best of any time during the season. The
nights are cool sure enough, but it Is all
the more pleasant to ride.
They say Thomas Stevens intends to
turn author and issue q volume detailing
in full his varied adventures in foreign
lands while wheeling around the globe.
It would be good idea for some ofthe
Young blOOds TO ri le with such riders as
Messrs. Hoge or Wilkinson; the older
riders may be pOkey but they never come
home in hospital shape.
They all declare Thomas Stevens as
mute as q clam since his trip around the
world, the Chicagoans going as far as 10
say they came near using stomach pump
on him when he was there.
A. A. Wheat, the enterprising agent of
the "Rudge" has "Bicyclette" on exhi-
bition which is conceded by expert riders
as being the handsomest and most service.
able safety bicycle ever seen in Wheeling.
Why don't the Wheeling wheelmen and
Island 'cyclers organize? 1t is time, and
as there q number of new riders this season
there will be additions to both the w. w.
and /. C.'s. Boys, the early bird gets the
plum, etc.
1.-THE Owlr says, though cyclists toll
that their wheels may spin, yet it is safe
to declare that Soloman, in all his glory,
was not arrayed like one of these, es-
pecially when the wheelman wears one of
the variegated patterns of the former
League uniform.
wonder if, when our cyclers organize,
they will adopt the League uniform. l
think it is preferable. 1t is neat and dur
able and more especially in style when
touring, as every wheelman knows the
League uniform as well as he knows his
wheel.
Mr.. MOrrey's accident ont the Bridge
port pike one day last week has impressed
upon the minds of his fellow cyclerS the
uncertainties of a wheelman's trip, and as
a consequence there has been boom in
accident insurance.
One day last week John Morrey, Ben
Baer and several other riders took a run
out to ST. Clairsville to see the cyclone
ruins. When within about a mile of the
town Mr.. Morrey took header into heap
of stones, the fall rendering him insensible
for few moments. His companions coming
up he was cared for. A few moments
after Mr.. LaEford drove up, and offering
seat in his buggy to the disabled rider.
He was driven to town, leaving his wheel
in care of his companions, who took turn
about walking and pushing both their
own and the extra wheel.
1t is TO be hoped the new gymnasium is
not going to occupy all of DR.. MasOn's
spare time rs the Doctor has heretofore
been untiring in his attention to the
wheel and wheelmen. AYE BEE.